Just a few of the cookies we baked and decorated this weekend.

We started our holiday baking today! I always bake plenty of sugar cookies this time of year. They get packaged up and given out to friends and family as gifts. My son loves to decorate them with me and was even able to pipe his own icing this year which was fun. Martha Stewart has a great sugar cookie recipe which I’ve been using for several years now. It’s a buttery, sweet cookie that’s delicious to eat even without icing. It’s quite time consuming to make them though, but definitely worth all the effort.